More confirmation from here in Sweden which only has digital TV transmissions now. A basic set-top box with analog out costs less than $50... without any subsidies.
Why should interface and controller costs be significant? It's certainly going to be less than for a regular drive since you won't have to deal with anything electromechanical. And if you compare with something similar as USB thumb drives they've come down so much in price that you can find them for a song in supermarkets these days... and they all have controller and interface electronics in them.
Why does it show up only with SCOX? Most likely because it's quite rare for a wellknown company to become deficent and even more rare to be bankrupt at the same time. Just think about it... it really sends up a big warning flag all over the market if it happens to your company. Better to take the bull by the horns and delist yourself than being rapped over the fingers where everyone can see you. This search: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afinance.yahoo.com+%22is+deficient%22+-scox+-messages only for me turns up 4 other companies that are also deficent. There's bound to be more since Google doesn't index everything.
The 19th September newsitem is the SEC filing informing that the have recieved the delisting notice but it doesn't go into why they got the notice. Guess they didn't have to give a reason to SEC and didn't want to fan any flames.
The triggering events for delisting notices usually is either that the stock has been trading under $1 for more than 30 days or that their market capitalization is under $5 million. The reason NASDAQ doesn't want that kind of stocks to be traded is that they become easy to manipulate. (see http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/032002.asp )
It's one the financial status classifications that NASDAQ uses. Deficient means that they don't live up to NASDAQs conditions for continued listing and in this case it's most likely that they've been trading to long under $1 (and perhaps that their market capitalisation is to small as well). Bankrupt, well, if you're in chapter 11 you're certainly bankrupt.
Some other classifications are: "deficent and delinquent", "delinquent and bankrupt" and "deficent, delinquent and bankrupt".
As I said this is a gray area. Maybe he could argue that but on the other hand I'd be surprised if telcoms are allowed to snoop as they wish in Sweden but they certainly can't go around repeating my communcations at will. So the bigger problem could be that he not only did snoop but he also disseminated it publicly. Without being a legal scholar I'd say it's fairly obvious that the intent with the law was to preserve the privacy of the commmuncating parties messages.
Maybe it would be better to argue that the senders of the messages should not have expected privacy because of the system as it was. But I think he should get a good lawyer anyhow.
All he did was run a tor exit node, and observe the outgoing traffic...
And that could very likely be construed as eavesdropping on electronic communications. The Swedish penal code, 4th chapter, 8th paragraph, says:
8 Den som olovligen bereder sig tillgång till ett meddelande, som ett post- eller telebefordringsföretag förmedlar som postförsändelse eller telemeddelande, döms för brytande av post- eller telehemlighet till böter eller fängelse i högst två år.
Which translates to approximatly:
The person who gains access to a message, that a postal or telecommunications company transmits, as a postal or telecommuncations message, is to be sentened for exposure of postal or telecommuncations secret to fines or a maximum of two years prison.
Swedish laws are a bit laconic so that's the full text. I'm not really surprised that the police decide to start an investigation since what he did could be legal - it's not a clear cut case. Obviously the message were not ment for him and he didn't come by them by accident. Word to the wise: better read up on the laws where are if you're going to pull something like this. If it's in the gray area be prepared to investigated.
FTC doesn't care and of course the EU does not have any jurisdiction outside its borders. But if they wish to have an actual business-presence in the EU (a market that is on par with the US one) they need local offices and need to follow local laws (same goes for EU compnaies making business in the US). Of course they wouldn't lose all their revenue but I'm pretty shure the majority of the ad buyers would at least think about doing business with someone that is there locally. And the market opening left would of course be filled by companies that do offer just that.
Add to that the problem with a global company that "takes its ball and goes away" in a major market will not be considered trustworthy in the same way as before they did that. Which will create somewhat of a domino-effect trustwise since other markets will wonder:"Ok, will they do the same here if legal issues arise?"
I spoke only about my intetions and I can not guarantee anyone that I will rise to those standards even if I truly wish I will but without intent we are empty. We learn as we go through life and one of my lessons was my grandmother suffering from dementia: I will always remember her as the strong salt-of-the-earth-woman that I met during the summers who served me wonderful local country food and just loved me for me who I was.
I did cry when I thought about her as she was and I think she would have approved. RIP Hilja.
As with all "untreatable" diseases it should be left up to the individual. I can only speak for myself but if I started to have some symptoms I think I would like to know so I could help those close to me when they start to suffer from my disease. As a suffer from Alzheimers I'd wish them to make it as well for me as they can but without putting an extremly heavy burden on them. My "self" would be going and I'd wish them to remember me as my full self, if "I" am not there then they should do as well as they can but I wouldn't want them sacrifice their life for what's left of mine.
...since this will allow students to evaluate their lecturing style in addition to the other aspects that they consider when choosing a course. Personally I would have taken a harder calculus class if could have had another better lecturer. And conversely there are a few non-core courses that I would have dropped if I'd seen the way they were taught.
And hopefully in the end it will lead to a somewhat higher standard in lectures all over in the long run even if there are some that will never change.
Most likely Sonys new "Bravia Internet Video Link". Seems like it's only for streaming for now... and perhaps Sony will realise that people wants a hdd to save to as well. But judging from past behaviour from Sony it might really take some time since customer lock-in has been pretty high on the list of priorities.
This is *bad* news for the GPL. The GPL exists because of copyright law. Thanks to this ruling, any corporation (read, Microsoft) is free to move an office to Antigua, steal our code, and ship it back to the US. Maybe this is about free music for some people... but for a lot of developers, this is a big blow: thousands of (wo|)man-years, that any corporation may steal and sell back to the public at profit, without crediting the original author.
No, it's no biggie for GPL. Just because one jursidiction doesn't recognize the rights of the writer/ownre it doesn't mean that other jurisdictions will follow. Otherwise I could, say, print 500000 copies of the latest Harry Potter book in some godforgotten place on earth, ship them to Sweden where I live and make a very handsom profit.
A couple of years ago we talked about portable electric power on the coffee-break at work and I mentioned that Voyager had some kind of nuclear powered source for electricity (corret term turned out ot be Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoel ectric_generator.
A reasonably intelligent guy turns to me and says "But you know that Voyager is all fictional?". He had no clue about the Voyager program and only thought of Star Trek Voyager...
Was to write my own definition of "forced ventilation" when I found this: "Forced: A type of building ventilation system that uses fans or blowers to provide fresh air to rooms when the forces of air pressure and gravity are not enough to circulate air through a building." I belive that in passive houses (passive in this context -> no heating) they use air ducts in the same way as air-carried heating but insted of directly heating the air they pull in cold air, run it through a heat-exchanger that pulls the energy from the outgoing air. (Passive houses can't use airing-windows etc on a regular basis as you would normally do)
I'm more familiar with nicely insulated houses that my friends have in Finland, than Sweden, but on the other side, I'd heard some research that said you need airflow to make sure a house and the people in it remain healthy
What we're talking about here are passive houses and they are not just "nicely insulated" but "almost insanely" insulated... typical insulation is about 60 cm as far south as Gothenburg (and I've never seen normal houses with walls that are 80 cm thick). As for health issues I assume you mean the problems with mold/mildew/rot that sometimes happen in houses with poor airflow. There are two ways to look at the problem: either you have too little of breathable material/construction in the house or you have too much. Earlier tries with just adding copious amounts of insulation in the 70s-80s got a bad reputation becuase it could lead to mold/mildew/rot problems. Which is, as I mentioned before, mostly caused by warm air finding its way outwards and depositing moisture where it cools down. Solutions: a) you make everything more breathable or b) you make it air tight... which it what you go for with passive houses since it's the most effective. The unhealthy choice is to sit somewhere inbetween.
It should be noted that I'm not a building expert. Just an interested bystander:)
In Sweden tri-pane glazing is pretty much standard these days (the place I lived that was built 15 years ago had tri-pane, currently living in a house built in the 60s with ordinary double-pane. I can't imagine any new windows being anything that tri-pane around here. To get it just look at this thermal image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Pass ivhaus_thermogram_gedaemmt_ungedaemmt.png
When it comes to heavy duty insulation there's more of a trade-off. It's not the insulation itself that's costly but the building process. If you build a heavily insulated house it needs to be air-tight with forced ventilation if used it in a somewhat cold climates. Otherwise the humid air inside will travel along the existing openings and when it makes contact with colder ares it will create condensation. And that condesation will lead to a mold problem... which is usually pretty bad.
Here's a question...
The exhaust of a hydrogen car is mostly warm water vapor - the same output as a humidifier.
If the whole planet switched to hydrogen, what would be the overall effect of running a billion humidifiers on our roads? Would Arizona suddenly become as humid as Florida?
It's such a small fraction that it's what I would refer to as "a pee in the Nile". Let's take Arizona as an example... it has about 6 million people and uses around 2.4 trillion gallons (yes 2400 billion) per year [1] with about 1.6 trillion gallons being used by farms. That's more than 250 000 gallons per person and year just for the farms. So what hydrogen vehicles would produce is neglible both locally and globally.
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Without being a lawyer I'm guessing the closest thing we'll get to a criminal case is the possibilty of piercing the corporate veil because of the Lanham Act violations brought on by IBM. The board or parts of it could very well become personally liable for their actions if that works out... they (IBM in this case) have to prove that false or misleading statements were made, that the the statements were used in commercial promotion/advertisment and there must have been a likely injury. If the false/misleading statements were made then the two other points are pretty obvious to me. They went on a telling everyone how they had been done wrong by IBM (if they would sign an NDA) during a promotion tour... and with all the publicity surrounding the case the likelyhood of injury is very very high.
...that you might have to accept the legal responsibilies of the site that is being backed up. It's not just a simple exchange of providing corresponding services... Take it down to a personal level... who would you trust to use your personal computer as a backup server (in a reciprocal manner)? No one that hasn't your full and complete trust is my guess. Encryption would provide some protection but this isn't about data backup but service fallback.
So unless you have some kind of legal agreement covering your actual risks it's not for everyone. But for large scale organisations, with real legal clout, like universities it might makes sense. But not for individuals.
And of course any review must also be judged on the merits of those who stand behind it. In this case the Software Freedom Law Center which has Eben Moglen as chairman (just in case you missed who that guy is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen). I'd probably trust what SFLC says more than what most corporations says.
The human body has a way of defending itself against all sorts of nasty stuff. Generally, things aren't bad for you unless you're exposed in excess. Apples contain cyanide, potatoes contain solanine, and cars emit carbon monoxide. Let's avoid all of them!
Yes, the body has a way of defending itself against all sorts of nasty stuff that have been naturally occuring in our habitat during evolution. Humans have no defense against sub 10 micrometer particles and they can get straight down to the pulmonary alveoli.
Nothing strange about it. They just pointed out that because there is enough suspicion to make someone to sign off on a search warrant it doesn't mean they are guilty. Just a soundbite taken a bit out of context I think.
Now why use a search warrant instead of a subpoena in cases like this? Because subpoenas are just to slow when it comes to trying to clarify possibly illegal dealings between several conspiring partners. If one of the conspirators get their subpoena just a bit head of the other they likely would be warned off since that could make it easier to duck the charges if addiontal material can't be found. Which is why they often stage so called "dawn raids" when trying uncover anticompetetive behaviour and hit all offices at the same time with a search warrant.
I suspect that you have a very good point there... and add to that if what you pointed out is true then it's most probably a self-propagating phenomenon. Consider the following
You want the widest dissemination of your research (for funding, career opportunities etc).
You therefor write it in english and target the largest publications which of course would be found in the largest english speaking industrialised countries.
You then need to convince those doing the peer review that your paper is good enough and of course an US publication will have more US based researchers doing that review. That means if you use citations that they are very familiar with (US ones of course) your chances to get published should increase. Just makes sense everywhere in life - if you actually have something to say directly then tailor your message for the ones that you want to recieve it
End result: more US based citations used and more reason for researchers to start at point 1 of this list.
But currently they also makes them vulnerable to a single point of failure (as indirectly pointed out in the article). If you have some data that has any real value for you then having only one copy (or only one storage facility) isn't any real protection whatever method you use. In this case we have data that would be readily accepted for backup by organisations all around the globe and barring a worldwide upheaval the safety of the data would be much better than any single glassplate could offer.
Of course the ideal would be if we could develop a cheap digital permanent storage that had guaranteed physical longevity, say several millenia. That combination would allow easy dissemination of the data and safety by using a multiplicty of sources.
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More confirmation from here in Sweden which only has digital TV transmissions now. A basic set-top box with analog out costs less than $50... without any subsidies.
Why should interface and controller costs be significant? It's certainly going to be less than for a regular drive since you won't have to deal with anything electromechanical. And if you compare with something similar as USB thumb drives they've come down so much in price that you can find them for a song in supermarkets these days... and they all have controller and interface electronics in them.
Why does it show up only with SCOX? Most likely because it's quite rare for a wellknown company to become deficent and even more rare to be bankrupt at the same time. Just think about it... it really sends up a big warning flag all over the market if it happens to your company. Better to take the bull by the horns and delist yourself than being rapped over the fingers where everyone can see you. This search: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afinance.yahoo.com+%22is+deficient%22+-scox+-messages only for me turns up 4 other companies that are also deficent. There's bound to be more since Google doesn't index everything.
The 19th September newsitem is the SEC filing informing that the have recieved the delisting notice but it doesn't go into why they got the notice. Guess they didn't have to give a reason to SEC and didn't want to fan any flames.
The triggering events for delisting notices usually is either that the stock has been trading under $1 for more than 30 days or that their market capitalization is under $5 million. The reason NASDAQ doesn't want that kind of stocks to be traded is that they become easy to manipulate. (see http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/032002.asp )
It's one the financial status classifications that NASDAQ uses. Deficient means that they don't live up to NASDAQs conditions for continued listing and in this case it's most likely that they've been trading to long under $1 (and perhaps that their market capitalisation is to small as well). Bankrupt, well, if you're in chapter 11 you're certainly bankrupt.
Some other classifications are: "deficent and delinquent", "delinquent and bankrupt" and "deficent, delinquent and bankrupt".
See: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader/News/2005/vendoralerts/nva2005-021.stm
As I said this is a gray area. Maybe he could argue that but on the other hand I'd be surprised if telcoms are allowed to snoop as they wish in Sweden but they certainly can't go around repeating my communcations at will. So the bigger problem could be that he not only did snoop but he also disseminated it publicly. Without being a legal scholar I'd say it's fairly obvious that the intent with the law was to preserve the privacy of the commmuncating parties messages.
Maybe it would be better to argue that the senders of the messages should not have expected privacy because of the system as it was. But I think he should get a good lawyer anyhow.
FTC doesn't care and of course the EU does not have any jurisdiction outside its borders. But if they wish to have an actual business-presence in the EU (a market that is on par with the US one) they need local offices and need to follow local laws (same goes for EU compnaies making business in the US). Of course they wouldn't lose all their revenue but I'm pretty shure the majority of the ad buyers would at least think about doing business with someone that is there locally. And the market opening left would of course be filled by companies that do offer just that.
Add to that the problem with a global company that "takes its ball and goes away" in a major market will not be considered trustworthy in the same way as before they did that. Which will create somewhat of a domino-effect trustwise since other markets will wonder:"Ok, will they do the same here if legal issues arise?"
I think conducting a study lacking informed consent where they denied syphilis treatment to over 300 people tops those in the list. And this went on until 1972. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_Male
I spoke only about my intetions and I can not guarantee anyone that I will rise to those standards even if I truly wish I will but without intent we are empty. We learn as we go through life and one of my lessons was my grandmother suffering from dementia: I will always remember her as the strong salt-of-the-earth-woman that I met during the summers who served me wonderful local country food and just loved me for me who I was.
I did cry when I thought about her as she was and I think she would have approved. RIP Hilja.
As with all "untreatable" diseases it should be left up to the individual. I can only speak for myself but if I started to have some symptoms I think I would like to know so I could help those close to me when they start to suffer from my disease. As a suffer from Alzheimers I'd wish them to make it as well for me as they can but without putting an extremly heavy burden on them. My "self" would be going and I'd wish them to remember me as my full self, if "I" am not there then they should do as well as they can but I wouldn't want them sacrifice their life for what's left of mine.
...since this will allow students to evaluate their lecturing style in addition to the other aspects that they consider when choosing a course. Personally I would have taken a harder calculus class if could have had another better lecturer. And conversely there are a few non-core courses that I would have dropped if I'd seen the way they were taught.
And hopefully in the end it will lead to a somewhat higher standard in lectures all over in the long run even if there are some that will never change.
Most likely Sonys new "Bravia Internet Video Link". Seems like it's only for streaming for now... and perhaps Sony will realise that people wants a hdd to save to as well. But judging from past behaviour from Sony it might really take some time since customer lock-in has been pretty high on the list of priorities.
http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/television/flat_panel_displays/lcd/release/27475.html http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/gallery-and-hands-on-sony-bravia-internet-video-link-box-226824.php
No that's wrong. He changed his strategy from trying to win to just playing for a draw.
A couple of years ago we talked about portable electric power on the coffee-break at work and I mentioned that Voyager had some kind of nuclear powered source for electricity (corret term turned out ot be Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoel ectric_generator.
A reasonably intelligent guy turns to me and says "But you know that Voyager is all fictional?". He had no clue about the Voyager program and only thought of Star Trek Voyager...
It should be noted that I'm not a building expert. Just an interested bystander
Found a couple of nice pages dealing with an EU project concerning passive houses: http://www.passive-on.org/en/design_principles.ph
Depends on where you live.
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In Sweden tri-pane glazing is pretty much standard these days (the place I lived that was built 15 years ago had tri-pane, currently living in a house built in the 60s with ordinary double-pane. I can't imagine any new windows being anything that tri-pane around here. To get it just look at this thermal image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Pas
When it comes to heavy duty insulation there's more of a trade-off. It's not the insulation itself that's costly but the building process. If you build a heavily insulated house it needs to be air-tight with forced ventilation if used it in a somewhat cold climates. Otherwise the humid air inside will travel along the existing openings and when it makes contact with colder ares it will create condensation. And that condesation will lead to a mold problem... which is usually pretty bad.
[1] http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special26/artic
Without being a lawyer I'm guessing the closest thing we'll get to a criminal case is the possibilty of piercing the corporate veil because of the Lanham Act violations brought on by IBM. The board or parts of it could very well become personally liable for their actions if that works out... they (IBM in this case) have to prove that false or misleading statements were made, that the the statements were used in commercial promotion/advertisment and there must have been a likely injury. If the false/misleading statements were made then the two other points are pretty obvious to me. They went on a telling everyone how they had been done wrong by IBM (if they would sign an NDA) during a promotion tour... and with all the publicity surrounding the case the likelyhood of injury is very very high.
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Google for yourself or see some more at http://www.rkmc.com/Lanham_Act_Also_Applies_to_Fa
...that you might have to accept the legal responsibilies of the site that is being backed up. It's not just a simple exchange of providing corresponding services... Take it down to a personal level... who would you trust to use your personal computer as a backup server (in a reciprocal manner)? No one that hasn't your full and complete trust is my guess. Encryption would provide some protection but this isn't about data backup but service fallback.
So unless you have some kind of legal agreement covering your actual risks it's not for everyone. But for large scale organisations, with real legal clout, like universities it might makes sense. But not for individuals.
And of course any review must also be judged on the merits of those who stand behind it. In this case the Software Freedom Law Center which has Eben Moglen as chairman (just in case you missed who that guy is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen). I'd probably trust what SFLC says more than what most corporations says.
EPA information about particle pollution can be found at http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=particle.cover
Nothing strange about it. They just pointed out that because there is enough suspicion to make someone to sign off on a search warrant it doesn't mean they are guilty. Just a soundbite taken a bit out of context I think.
Now why use a search warrant instead of a subpoena in cases like this? Because subpoenas are just to slow when it comes to trying to clarify possibly illegal dealings between several conspiring partners. If one of the conspirators get their subpoena just a bit head of the other they likely would be warned off since that could make it easier to duck the charges if addiontal material can't be found. Which is why they often stage so called "dawn raids" when trying uncover anticompetetive behaviour and hit all offices at the same time with a search warrant.
Of course the ideal would be if we could develop a cheap digital permanent storage that had guaranteed physical longevity, say several millenia. That combination would allow easy dissemination of the data and safety by using a multiplicty of sources.